Ksawery Wlodyga

Ksawery Wlodyga (28 October 1771-late August 1805) was a Polish rebel general during the Bulkiewicz Revolt of 1805. He succeeded Mateusz Bulkiewicz upon his execution, but was defeated in the Battle of Mszczonow Forests in early August 1805 and died in battle.

Biography
Ksawery Wlodyga was born in Warsaw in Poland-Lithuania to a family of textile workers. Wlodyga was recruited into the Prussian Army in 1795 (after the Third Partition of Poland) and was one of the Polish officers commanding forces on the western front against France during the French Revolutionary Wars. He gained the rank of Major in the Prussian Army's Hussars.

Wlodyga was low-ranking and illiterate at the outbreak of the Bulkiewicz Revolt of 1805, but he decided to support the liberal independentist revolution in Poland. After the massacre of Polish and Prussian troops at the Battle of Odrzywol in July 1805 and the subsequent death of Mateusz Bulkiewicz, Wlodyga was made the new leader of the Polish rebellion. It was not long before a new Prussian army under General Gebhard von Blucher arrived in Poland and ambushed the Poles in the Battle of Mszczonow Forests, and Wlodyga was killed when the Prussian cavalry chased him down and cut him from his horse. The last Polish troops were rounded up and killed soon after.